"What about the experts we hired? What about our firewall? How did it fail to detect this?"
"Well... the firewall actually did send out anomaly alerts, but they were ignored... Also, that person—mentioned in the report as Ethan Williams—our investigation shows his work record at Alphabet is quite... I'm sorry, I don't know how to describe it."
There was much to explain, but many details were technical and specific, likely beyond the understanding of Christopher Brown, who didn't need everything spelled out clearly.
Of course, even the person reporting the case couldn't understand how things came to this.
A technical personnel, from the very first day of employment, diligently planted backdoors and vulnerabilities into a major project hosted by a legitimate, large-scale tech company every single day. The fact that Google didn't detect it can be excused, but the company even promoted him as the project leader.
